The White House on Tuesday responded to concerns voiced by a Moderna executive who suggested the current vaccines slotted to fight the coronavirus will not be enough to counter the new omicron ...

Moderna has started human trials of an Omicron version of its COVID-19 vaccine SpikeVax, just in case a modified version will be needed to boost protection against the new variant later this year.

"Bivalent" means it's half original strain, and half Omicron BA.4, BA.5. The only bivalent boosters currently authorized are mRNA versions—one by Pfizer, another by Moderna—and this is the first time ...

The UK has become the first country in the world to authorise an updated COVID-19 booster vaccine directed at the Omicron variant, giving a green light to Moderna's mRNA-1273.214 shot.

Moderna yesterday announced that it has submitted an application to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for emergency use of its bivalent (two-strain) COVID booster vaccine that targets the BA.4/BA ...

Omicron: How worried should we be ... There was not enough data to analyse the Moderna or Janssen vaccines, but there is no reason to think they would have different results.

Moderna today said both versions of its updated booster shots against Omicron variants—one that targets BA.1 and the other geared toward BA.4/5—prompts a better antibody response than its original ...

Moderna Inc. said Thursday a Phase 3 trial of ... which showed that mRNA-1283 had higher neutralizing antibody responses against both Omicron BA.4/5 and ancestral SARS-CoV-2 than mRNA-1273 ...

Moderna Inc. announced Tuesday that its next ... as it demonstrated a higher immune response against the Omicron BA.4/BA.5 ...

Booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines have proven highly effective at preventing Omicron-related hospitalisations, according to three new studies by the US Centers for Disease ...

1 Omicron subvariant. The Omicron booster made by Pfizer Inc. can be administered to people 12 and older, while Moderna Inc.’s Omicron booster is authorized for those 18 and older. In the past ...